A pre-history story by a Belarusian author about a teenage girl whose life is a whirlwind of talent, illness, love and surrounding events. A tight knot of emotions that will eventually turn into power.

These were all just ghosts of the night, phantoms of the mind wandering in the dark. And although he had to see a lot of them and even once during a lonely walk to face Satan himself, the daylight always overcame all this devilry, and then he could lead an ordinary, pleasant life without fear of the forces of the other world.

The very first novel of the writer - ‘The Former Son’ - tells about a young man who was injured in a terrible stampede on Nemiza and was in a coma for 10 years. He was looked after by his grandmother, who, in turn, tried to see the world through the eyes of her grandson, to tell him everything when he recovered. She tells, and the reader remembers what Belarusians experienced during that time:...

The novel begins with the events of June 23, 1941, when the offensive of the German army launched another wave of the fight against spies in the USSR. The work immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the 1930s and is based on the materials of the investigative case of the first director of the Moscow crematorium, Pyotr Ilyich Nesterenka, through whose testimony and diaries one can trace the...

An introduction to Belarusian intellectualism from one of its most famous — and most controversial — proponents and defenders. A rousing vocabulary, brazen enthusiasm, unyielding sarcasm, and paradoxical sharpness of thought. A new culture of national thinking. The birth of a legend.This is the first reprint in 25 years of a cult book that was first published in 1998. With the author’s...

Sergei Prilutsky is a punk writer, virtuoso stylist and hooligan pupil of the ‘swamp glamour society’. A piercing lyricist and a desperate translator from the unbearable to the human. Author of the books ‘Hero of the Age of Stability’, ‘Patriotism for Dummies’, ‘Nineties Forever’, ‘Nothing Scary’, etc. Born in Brest. Since the end of the zero years he has lived in Ukraine. He survived the...

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of...